Chapter 19. Web Parts and Their Functionality in SharePoint 2010

Introducing Web Parts

Web Parts are components that offer reusable functionality when added to a Web Part Page. An example is a Web Part that provides the current weather forecast for your region. Because every user is not from the same region, you can add a weather Web Part to different pages and offer the same functionality on each page, yet users would be able to customize the functionality on each page, too. For example, users could customize the weather forecast by setting their own postal codes using the Web Part properties; then each ...

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